RSD opts to save on election costs for uncontested racesThe Russellville School Board approved a resolution Tuesday to ask the Pope County Election Commission not to open polling places on Sept. 15, Election Day for school board races. This measure will allow the board to save money and conduct the election solely through absentee and early voting. The Russellville School District does not have any opposed races for this year's school board election. Also on Tuesday, the board approved a recommenda...

ATU Professor Emeritus Walker dies at 87FOR THE COURIER arkansastechnews.com Dr. Kenneth Walker, who served on the Arkansas Tech University faculty for 40 years and wrote a book chronicling the history of Arkansas Tech, died Tuesday. He was 87. Walker served in the U.S. Air Force on active duty from 1952-1958, and he taught at the Air Force Academy. He retired from the Air Force Reserves as a colonel. Walker joined the Arkansas Tech faculty in 1958, and he served at Arkansas Tech th...

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Hector School District finishes year with $200,000 carryoverHECTOR — Superintendent Walt Davis recommended that the Hector School Board approve a plan during its July 16 regular meeting to transfer $200,000 carryover from the operating to the building fund. Despite some unexpected transportation expenses at the end of the school year, the district finished the fiscal year with its finances sufficiently improved, Davis said. The board approved the transfer unanimously. The board also approved Davis’s pr...

Dr. Daniel Belongia: 'A Blue Collar Band Kid'New Arkansas Tech University director of bands and associate professor of music Dr. Daniel Belongia doesn’t just want to be around music. He needs it. “I’m a bit like the moth to the flame,” said Belongia. “We were wrapping up the spring semester in Illinois, packing up a house, buying a house, moving into a house, moving into an office and preparing for the middle school band campers to arrive, so I spent about two months not doing any music…...

Permit approved for alcohol sales at Arkansas StateJONESBORO — A permit has been approved allowing alcohol to be served at some events on the Arkansas State University campus. ASU says Arkansas Alcohol Beverage Control Board Director Bud Roberts approved the permit for the NEA Sports Club of Jonesboro on Monday, conditional on a final inspection of the facilities. ASU’s Board of Trustees in April approved a 10-year lease agreement with the nonprofit sports club allowing it to serve alcohol to ...

Russellville School District Registration Information 2015-2016 Monday, August 17, 2015, is the first day of school for grades K-12. Students who attended school in the Russellville School District last year are pre-registered. ELEMENTARY (Kindergarten through 4th Grade) All students attending Russellville schools in kindergarten through fourth grade who are new to the district should register as soon as possible beginning Monday, August 3. Elementary students register at the school in their zone. Required...

Arkansas Tech-Ozark announces Chancellor’s List, Honor RollStudents with a 3.5-3.9 term grade point average (GPA) are named to the Honor Roll, and those with a 4.0 GPA are given the distinction of placement on the Chancellor’s List. Members of the spring 2015 Chancellor’s List and Honor Roll are listed below by city: ATKINS — Veo Condley (4.0) and Alycia Hill. CLARKSVILLE — Michael Barnes, Tasha Burt (4.0), Autumn Byrd, Leticia Cardozo (4.0), Samantha Christian (4.0), Robert Cox, Jacqueline Dominguez ...

Community photo: ATU receives awardArkansas Tech University has received the Special Olympics of Arkansas School Spirit of the Year award for 2015. Receiving the honor on behalf of Arkansas Tech were (from left) Dr. MarTeze Hammonds, associate dean for diversity and inclusion; Emily Bradley, coordinator of leadership and service in the Office of Campus Life; Rhylie Gachot, resident director in the Office of Residence Life; and Sabrina Billey, area coordinator in the Office of R...

RSD hears LED light proposalThe Russellville School District’s Buildings and Ground Committee met Wednesday with a director and partner of Entegrity, a Conway company who proposed a project to replace the district’s lights with new LED lights that would save the district money in the long run. Entegrity is the second LED lighting company to propose projects for the district. The first company was Excel Energy Group of Russellville, and the final proposal will soon be hea...

ATU to celebrate bulldog’s birthdayFOR THE COURIER Members of the Arkansas Tech University (ATU) community and their families, as well as alumni and friends, are invited to attend a come-and-go birthday reception for Jerry the Bulldog, campus ambassador, on Friday. Jerry will turn 2 years old on Friday. The reception will take place from 3-4 p.m. in Doc Bryan Student Services Center room 242. Guests are asked to not bring gifts, but those who wish to do so may make a contributi...

Two Rivers millage failsAn increase of two mills that would have raised funds for new classrooms and offices at the elementary school, as well as paid for relocating football, softball and baseball facilities to the Two Rivers School District campus, was voted down by district residents 737-400 on Tuesday. “This is something our students deserve and need,” superintendent Jim Loyd said. “They deserve to have the same things other districts have. The Board and I will n...

Community photo: Best mannered teacherKay Dickey was surprised with receiving the honor of the National League of Junior Cotillions’ “Best Mannered Teacher Award” at the school’s awards assembly before the summer break. Presenting the award to her was Lilly Ruston, a cotillion student who wrote the winning essay. The challenge of the essay was to nominate a teacher who exemplifies a person who uses manners and treats others with honor, dignity and respect. Dickey is a Literacy and...

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Community photo: Welding scholarshipsUnited Welding Institute Inc. recently presented Dakota James Caskey from Ashdown School district with a full-paid scholarship to United Welding Institute in the amount of $12,000 as winner of the High School Welding Competition. Dakota is the son of Sonia Caskey of Ashdown and James Caskey of Bradley.